Exclusive — CIA Deputy Director Michael Ellis: CIA to Create a ‘Finely Tuned Machine’ to Destroy the

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Exclusive — CIA Deputy Director Michael Ellis: CIA to Create a ‘Finely Tuned Machine’ to Destroy the Cartels

Kristina Wong 14 Apr 2025

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is opening its aperture on terrorism and is readying to unleash its capabilities against international cartels smuggling drugs across the nation’s borders, according to an exclusive interview with CIA Deputy Director Michael Ellis at CIA headquarters on Friday.

As early as this week, the agency is preparing to launch the Americas Counternarcotics Mission Center, which will merge agency personnel who focus on counternarcotics and personnel who focus on the Western Hemisphere, for closer and faster coordination, he said.

He said the goal is to create a “finely tuned machine” to destroy the cartels, whose members the Trump administration have designated as foreign terrorists. The agency is aiming to use its experience in hunting down radical Islamist jihadists honed over the past 25 years, and apply it to destroying the cartels’ networks abroad.

It will mark a big shift for the agency that has primarily focused its fight against counterterrorism fight in Middle East and South Asia.

Ellis said that focus is not going away, but that it will now include Latin America — which has been neglected over the past two decades. For example, he noted that at the CIA’s headquarters, one has to walk through a kitchen to get to the counternarcotics center conference room.

That will change, he said, joking that some linguists may need to switch from Arabic to Spanish.

Symbolic of this shift is Ellis’s first official trip as deputy CIA director to the border near San Diego, California. During that visit, he met with personnel from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Department of Homeland Security, and Customs and Border Patrol, with whom the CIA will be working closely in this effort.

“It’s a whole of government effort,” he said.

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LOL! 

My cynicism knows no bounds!  This is merely a path for the CIA to conduct sanctioned hits on cartel people involved in coordinated child trafficking at the border in order to put their idea of "chain migration" into practice.

Hell...even the Catholic Church is heavily involved.